“You don't have to win every fight. You don't have to fight
every fight. But you DO have to stand for something.” — US
Senator Ted Cruz

In no particular order:

Lockdown continues. Technically it will
intensify as of April 6th. The next review point
is May 1st. May 1st is not a termination point for this.

Tech-wise my laptop is falling down the curve further to total
failure. I’ve got everything I can migrated off it. While it is
somewhat usable for the moment the USB chassis is seemingly toast.
I can hook up a stick, try to copy data to it, and get intermittent
errors that increase the longer the laptop is running. The fans
also run up to maximum quite a bit more easily at the moment. If
anybody can procure me a pi-top 3 I can
slap a Raspberry Pi 3B+ into it and have a working replacement
until the end of the crisis.

The media scene is imploding. Gannet is closing newspapers in
both their print and online formats. Lee Enterprises is closing
newspapers in both their print and online formats. Beasley
Broadcasting is staffing radio stations at a skeletal level.
Entercom is staffing radio stations at a skeletal level preparatory
to throwing some on automation. There is an “all podcast” format
launched by iHeartMedia which is essentially complete automation
which they did to one of their stations in Erie. Prior to COVID-19
iHeart already did a massive round of cuts and reductions moving
stations in several markets nation-wide to skeletal staffing. Radio
stations are closing in several markets if not owned by one of the
medium to large conglomerates. Every TV station that has their
newscast dispersed with most if not all anchors at home is likely
canning technical staff that they might not ever hire back.
Traditional news media is going to die if this stretches on all
that much longer as advertising revenue is going to crater.

The movie known as Alpha Gateway in the
STIRR on-demand Sci-Fi selection
needs nomination for handling by RiffTrax. It wasn’t bad but is an
Australian take on Sliders.

Although Erie
Looking Productions was apparently eligible to apply for
bailout funds under the CARES Act I am saying no to that. There are
ways to proceed and that isn’t it.

A goal this week is to build a mount adapter to be able to put
my smartphone on a tripod. We are going to try to film something
for Easter. Watching church services from Central Christian Church in
Henderson just isn’t the same.

The Pawmunkey action is delayed.

The Red & White Thunderbirds action is delayed.

Broadband keeps crashing here to where telehealth has
difficulty functioning. That will have consequences.